| Readers write: Voice from Moscow, Canada’s First Nations, and typing prowess Posted: 27 Apr 2019 03:00 AM PDT ![Readers write: Voice from Moscow, Canada's First Nations, and typing prowess]( "Readers write: Voice from Moscow, Canada's First Nations, and typing prowess") After reading Fred Weir's Feb. 21 Daily article "When Putin goes, will Putinism persist? Russians debate," a similar question was triggered in my mind: When Nikita Khrushchev, Mikhail Gorbachev, and Boris Yeltsin went, why didn't Khrushchevism, Gorbachevism, and Yeltsinism persist? Russia's modus vivendi is an endless territorial expansion, and the legacy of those Kremlin leaders who shrink it – be it by giving Crimea to Ukraine like Khrushchev or by dividing Soviet Russia into independent republics like Gorbachev and Yeltsin – is bound to perish and not persist.
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| Global Newsstand: Diverse teaching staffs are valuable, and more Posted: 27 Apr 2019 03:00 AM PDT ![Global Newsstand: Diverse teaching staffs are valuable, and more]( "Global Newsstand: Diverse teaching staffs are valuable, and more") "These are banner times for the education system across Australia and North America," writes Jessie Tu. "... In the past few years, the lack of cultural diversity in mainstream media, sports and government has been a contentious topic of discussion. "One thing is evident today: while [Mahatma] Gandhi is hailed as the founding father of the Indian republic and one of the architects of democratic politics in modern India, it is not recognised equally well today that we can draw valuable lessons of political action and democracy from him," writes Ramin Jahanbegloo.
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